President 2005/6: British Association of Comparative and International Education,
Executive Committee of UK Forum for Education and Training
DFID Research Review Panel,
World Bank (SEIA) Senior Consultant on Finance
International Institute of Educational Planning, Board of Consultants, Paris 1994 -2002
UNICEF Senior Consultant on Out of School Children
AUSAID Senior consultant

Senior consultant to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and DFID (India) on projection and planning for Rastriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA); senior consultant to the government of Uganda and development partners to develop the national framework for Post Primary Education and Training (PPET) for DFID); senior consultant to the Government of Tanzania and the World Bank on Finance for the Secondary Education Development Programme (World Bank), and Planning Nine Year Basic Education in Rwanda (CfBT/DFID). In each case I have developed the software for national projection models for finance and enrolment flows, and have written a series of policy papers presented at national and international conferences to shape the Medium Term Expenditure Framework. External Consultant to the Departments of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, the National Department of Education, and the Foundation for Research Development (South Africa) on research policy, teacher education, and science and technology capacity building. Special Advisor to the Minister of Education, Mauritius on financing and the implementation of the Education Masterplan (Govt of Mauritius/UNDP). Co-director of National Review of Science Education study in Malaysia (Govt of Malaysia/IIEP). Consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation on the African Forum for Children’s Literacy in Science. External consultant to Government of Sri Lanka for the World Bank and for UNDP for expenditure tracking and for research development at the National Institute of Education.

Co-Presenter of the Round Table on Financing Education for All at the World Conference on Education for All at Jomtien, Thailand (1990 – UNICEF); co-presenter of Round Table on post primary educational financing at the World Education Conference in Dakar (2000 IIEP). Several policy reviews for DFID including position papers on post primary education, for the White paper on Globalisation, institutional reviews of UK Educational Aid. My work on secondary school financing and development was presented in plenary to the Commonwealth Education Minister’s Conference (CCEM 2003/6/9) and to the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). The model developed by CREATE under my direction has been adopted by DFID in its 2010 Education Strategy Paper, and has been used to shape the UNICEF/UIS 23 Country Study of Out of School Children 2010/2011, and AUSAID’s Strategic Vision for its educational aid (2011).

Over 40 successful D Phil completions on education and development, financing education, science education, teacher education, curriculum development, inspection, project evaluation, decentralisation, and assessment. Current Doctoral supervisions include work on drop outs in rural communities in Ghana, private schooling and choice in Ghana, alternative delivery systems for basic education in the North of Ghana, multiple providers of educational services in Rajastahn, basic education and nomadic communities in Kashmir, transitions to secondary school in Uttar Pradesh, decentralised educational financing in India, educational access in Bangladesh, assessment and pedagogic change in science in Saudi Arabia, higher education and science policy in Sub Saharan Africa, cross border migration and education in Southern Africa, and transitions into the labour market in Sub Saharan Africa.

2. Lewin K M (2011) Making Rights Realities: Researching Educational Access, Transitions and Equity. Research Report of the Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity. Brighton: University of Sussex ISBN 0-901881-80-5 pp72

15. Lewin K M, and Sabates R, (2012), Who Gets What? Is Improved Access to Basic Education Pro-Poor in SSA? International Journal of Education and Development 32:1 (forthcoming)

16. Lewin K M (2011) Expanding Access to Secondary Education: Can India Catch Up? in Lewin K M, Little A W, and Hunt F (eds), Access, Equity, and Transitions in Education in Low Income Countries; CREATE Special Issue of the International Journal of Education and Development 31:4, 382-394 ISSN 0738-0593

17. Lewin K M and Little A W (2011) Access to Education Revisited: Equity, Drop out and Transitions to Secondary School in South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa in Lewin K M, Little A W, and Hunt F (eds) (2011) International Journal of Education and Development CREATE Special Issue of the International Journal of Education and Development 31:4, 333-338 ISSN 0738-0593

18. Little A W and Lewin K M and (2011) The Policies, Politics and Progress of Access to Basic Education in Little A W and Lewin K M (eds) CREATE Special Issue of the Journal of Educational Policy 26:4 477:483 ISSN 0268-0939

19. Lewin K M (2011) Policy Dialogue and Target Setting: Do Current Indicators of Education for All Signify Progress? CREATE Special Issue of the Journal of Educational Policy 26:4 571:589 ISSN 0268-0939

25. 2003 Lewin K M Insights into the Policy and Practice of Teacher Education in Low Income Countries: The Multi Site Teacher Education Research Project. Special Issue. British Education Research Journal, Vol 29, No 5 691-707 October 2003;

26. 2002 Lewin K M The Costs of Supply and Demand for Teacher Education: Dilemmas for Development. Double Issue of the International Journal of Education and Development edited by Lewin K M and Stuart JS March 2003 221-243

27. 2002 Lewin K M (with Akyeampong K) From Student Teachers To Newly Qualified Teachers In Ghana: Insights Into Becoming A Teacher. Double Issue of the International Journal of Education and Development edited by Lewin K M and Stuart JS March 2003 339-353

28. 2002 Lewin K M (with Coultas J) Who Becomes a Teacher? The Characteristics of Student Teachers in Four Countries. Double Issue of the International Journal of Education and Development edited by Lewin K M and Stuart JS March 2003 243-261

33. Lewin K M (2012) Nine Year Compulsory Education in China: What can be Learned from Two Decades of Development? Pp 1-22 in Qin, Hangyin (2012) The Experience of Nine Year Compulsory Education in China. UNESCO Publishing, Beijing.

37. 2006 Lewin K M Costs and Finance of Multigrade – How Do the Books Balance? in Little A W (ed) Education for All and Multigrade Teaching: Challenges and opportunities, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands

38. Lewin K M, 2005, Seeking Secondary Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa: Four Fallacies, Four Foresights and Four Freedoms in King K (ed) Reintegrating Education, Skills and Work in Africa: towards informal or Knowlede Economies? Towards Autoonomy or Dependency in Development? 2005, ISBN 0-9545183-2-2

49. 2000 Lewin K M The Cost of Culture: Some Dilemmas for Educational Investment in Mauritius in Leach F and Little A (eds) Education, Culture and Economics: Dilemmas and Prospects. Garland, New York 25pp.